For most Jewish children imprisoned behind the walls of the Warsaw ghetto, the only exit led to concentration camps and the gas chambers.
However, thousands did find salvation in the form of Irena Sendler, who smuggled them out in workmen’s bags, or through the sewers, before taking them to safety and hiding them with friendly families [...]

44 B.C. Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of nobles that included Brutus and Cassius.
1493 Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, concluding his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
1767 Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, was born in Waxhaw, S.C.
1820 Maine became the 23rd state.
1875 The Roman Catholic Archbishop of [...]